[Retired Chemist]

Thursday's forum/near riot was sponsored by state Rep. Betty Reed, D-Tampa, and the Service Employees International Union, who apparently had hoped to hold something of a pep rally for President Obama's health care reform proposal.

http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/article1025529.ece

[popdonnelly]

“sponsored by state Rep. Betty Reed, D-Tampa, and the Service Employees International Union,”

When I went to a Republican rally during the last election, the demonstration against it was being run by some jerk in an SEIU jacket.